The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 30
The old couple hardly knew how to contain themselves for joy, and thought of nothing else.
Who acts: old couple · What happens: know, contain, think · To what, where: lips · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old couple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 couple | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 couple | amod |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 knew | advmod |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 contain | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 contain | mark |
| 8 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 contain | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 contain | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 nothing | case |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 thought | obl |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 nothing | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the old couple | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | contain | to-infinitive | lips = lip | for joy | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the old couple not said here | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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